U.S. patent application number 16/627269 was filed with the patent office on 2020-05-28 for method for recognizing contingencies in a power supply network.
The applicant listed for this patent is Silvio Krompa Becher. Invention is credited to Silvio Becher, Denis Krompa.
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United States Patent
Application |
20200169085 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Becher; Silvio ; et
al. |
May 28, 2020 |
METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING CONTINGENCIES IN A POWER SUPPLY NETWORK
Abstract
A monitoring system adapted to recognize a contingency in a
power supply network, PSN, (2), the monitoring system (1)
comprising in-field measurement devices (3) adapted to generate
measurement data (MD) of said power supply network (2) and a
processing unit (4) adapted to process the measurement data (MD)
generated by the in-field measurement devices (3) of said power
supply network (2) by using a local network state estimation model
(LNSM) to calculate local network state profiles (LNSPs) used to
generate a global network state profile (GNSP), wherein said
processing unit (4) is further adapted to process the measurement
data (MD) generated by the in-field measurement devices (3) of said
power supply network (2) to provide a relevance profile (RP)
comprising for the in-field measurement devices (3) a relevance
distribution indicating a probability where the origin of a
contingency within the power supply network, PSN, (2) resides,
wherein the processing unit (4) is further adapted to compute a
similarity between a candidate contingency profile (CCP) formed by
the generated global network state profile (GNSP) and by the
calculated relevance profile (RP) and reference contingency
profiles, rCP, stored in a reference contingency database (5) of
said monitoring system (1) to identify the reference contingency
profile, rCP, having the highest computed similarity as the
recognized contingency within the power supply network, PSN,
(2).
Inventors: |
Becher; Silvio; (Munchen,
DE) ; Krompa ; Denis; (Munchen, DE) |
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Applicant: |
Name |
City |
State |
Country |
Type |
Becher; Silvio
Krompa ; Denis |
Munchen
Munchen |
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DE
DE |
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Family ID: |
59269806 |
Appl. No.: |
16/627269 |
Filed: |
June 7, 2018 |
PCT Filed: |
June 7, 2018 |
PCT NO: |
PCT/EP2018/064991 |
371 Date: |
December 27, 2019 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
1/1 |
Current CPC
Class: |
H02J 3/001 20200101;
G06Q 10/06315 20130101; G06Q 10/0639 20130101; G06N 3/00 20130101;
G06N 3/0454 20130101; G06N 3/08 20130101; H02J 2203/20 20200101;
H02J 13/00002 20200101; G06Q 10/0631 20130101; G06N 3/0445
20130101; G06Q 50/06 20130101; H02J 13/00 20130101; H02J 3/003
20200101; H02J 3/0012 20200101 |
International
Class: |
H02J 3/00 20060101
H02J003/00; G06N 3/04 20060101 G06N003/04; G06Q 50/06 20060101
G06Q050/06; H02J 13/00 20060101 H02J013/00 |
Foreign Application Data
Date |
Code |
Application Number |
Jun 28, 2017 |
EP |
17178400.2 |
Claims
1.-18. (canceled)
19. A method for recognizing contingencies in a power supply
network, the method comprising: processing measurement data
generated by in-field measurement devices of the power supply
network by associated neural attention models, such that a global
network state profile of the power supply network is provided, the
global network state profile comprising for the in-field
measurement devices of the power supply network, a class
probability distribution over contingency classes; processing the
measurement data generated by the in-field measurement devices of
the power supply network, such that a relevance profile of the
power supply network is provided, the relevance profile comprising
for the in-field measurement devices a relevance distribution
indicating a probability where an origin of a contingency within
the power supply network resides; comparing the global network
state profile of the power supply network and the relevance profile
of the power supply network with reference contingency profiles
stored in a reference contingency database, such that contingencies
in the power supply network are recognized; and computing a
similarity metric indicating a similarity between a candidate
contingency profile formed by the global network state profile and
the relevance profile of the power supply network and a reference
contingency profile for each of the reference contingency profiles
stored in the reference contingency database depending on the
global network state profile of the candidate contingency profile
and depending on the global network state profile of the respective
reference contingency profile.
20. The method according to claim 19, wherein each of the neural
attention models associated with a corresponding in-field
measurement device is used to calculate a local network state
profile for the power supply network at the respective in-field
measurement device.
21. The method of claim 20, wherein the local network state
profiles of the different in-field measurement devices are
concatenated to provide the global network state profile of the
power supply network.
22. The method of claim 19, wherein the in-field measurement
devices comprise phasor measurement units that provide a time
series of measurement data in different measurement channels.
23. The method of claim 20, wherein the respective neural attention
model comprises a convolutional layer to smooth measurement data
received by an associated in-field measurement device of the power
supply network.
24. The method of claim 19, wherein the neural attention model
associated with a corresponding in-field measurement device of the
power supply network comprises at least one recurrent neural
network layer to capture a time dependency of the received
measurement data.
25. The method of claim 24, wherein the neural attention model
associated with an in-field measurement device of the power supply
network comprises an attention layer that weights outputs of a last
recurrent neural network layer of the neural attention model with
an output of an associated feed-forward attention subnetwork
receiving channel-wise context information data indicating a steady
state of the power supply network at the respective in-field
measurement device.
26. The method of claim 19, wherein the neural attention model
associated with a corresponding in-field measurement device of the
power supply network comprises a classification layer that receives
weighted outputs of a last recurrent neural network layer of the
neural attention network to calculate a local network state profile
for the power supply network at the respective in-field measurement
device indicating a predicted class probability distribution over
contingency classes.
27. The method of claim 19, wherein each of the reference
contingency profiles stored in the reference contingency database
comprises a reference global network state profile and a reference
relevance profile.
28. The method of claim 19, wherein the similarity metric is a
first similarity metric, wherein the method further comprises:
calculating, for each of the reference contingency profiles stored
in the reference contingency database, a second similarity metric
depending on the global network state profile of the candidate
contingency profile and depending on the global network state
profile of the reference contingency profile; and calculating a
third similarity metric depending on the relevance profile of the
candidate contingency profile and depending on the relevance
profile of the reference contingency profile; wherein a similarity
metric indicating the similarity between the candidate contingency
profile and the respective reference contingency profile is
computed as a function of the calculated second similarity metric
and the calculated third similarity metric, and wherein a
similarity metric indicating the similarity between the candidate
contingency profile and the respective reference contingency
profile is computed as an average of the first similarity metric
and the second similarity metric.
29. The method of claim 19, further comprising preprocessing the
measurement data generated by each in-field measurement device of
the power supply network, such that a standard deviation of the
measurement data from an expected value in a steady state is
provided for each measurement channel of the respective in-field
measurement device.
30. The method of claim 29, further comprising rescaling the
respective preprocessed measurement data, the rescaling comprising
dividing the respective preprocessed measurement data through the
channel and the in-field measurement device specific standard
deviation.
31. The method of claim 29, further comprising calculating a
relevance weight for each in-field measurement device, calculating
the relevance weight comprising normalizing the standard deviation
of the measurement data of the respective in-field measurement
device, such that the relevance profile of the power supply network
is provided.
32. The method of claim 19, wherein the neural attention models are
trained with measurement data of observed contingencies of the
power supply network.
33. A monitoring system configured to recognize contingencies in a
power supply network, the monitoring system comprising: in-field
measurement devices configured to generate measurement data of the
power supply network; a processor configured to: process the
measurement data generated by the in-field measurement devices of
the power supply network by associated neural attention models,
such that a global network state profile of the power supply
network is provided, the global network state profile comprising
for the in-field measurement devices of the power supply network a
class probability distribution over contingency classes; process
the measurement data generated by the in-field measurement devices
of the power supply network, such that a relevance profile of the
power supply network is provided, the relevance profile comprising
for the in-field measurement devices a relevance distribution
indicating a probability where an origin of a contingency within
the power supply network resides; compare the global network state
profile of the power supply network and the relevance profile of
the power supply network with reference contingency profiles stored
in a reference contingency database of the monitoring system, such
that contingencies are recognized in the power supply network; and
compute, for each of the reference contingency profiles stored in
the reference contingency database, a similarity metric indicating
a similarity between a candidate contingency profile formed by the
global network state profile and the relevance profile of the power
supply network and the respective reference contingency profile
depending on the global network state profile of the candidate
contingency profile and depending on the global network state
profile of the respective reference contingency profile.
34. The monitoring system of claim 33, wherein the in-field
measurement devices comprise phasor measurement units that provide
a time series of measurement data in different measurement
channels.
35. The monitoring system of claim 33, wherein each neural
attention model comprises: a convolutional layer configured to
smooth measurement data received by an associated in-field
measurement device of the power supply network; at least one
recurrent neural network layer configured to capture a time
dependency of the received measurement data; and a classification
layer configured to weight the received outputs of a last recurrent
neural network layer of the at least one recurrent neural network
layer of the neural attention network, such that a local network
state profile is calculated for the power supply network at the
respective in-field measurement device indicating a predicted class
probability distribution over contingency classes.
Description
[0001] The invention relates to a method for recognizing
contingencies in a power supply network and in particular to a data
driven approach for recognizing contingencies in an electrical
grid.
[0002] A power supply network such as an electrical power supply
grid is a complex system comprising a plurality of subsystems
and/or components. These components include in-field measurement
devices such as phasor measurement units PMUs. Phasor measurement
units can measure electrical waves on an electrical grid. Phasor
measurement units can for instance measure 3-phase current phasors
(magnitude and angle), 3-phase voltage phasors and their frequency.
In large power supply networks, the in-field measurement devices,
in particular the PMUs can be located at strategic sites to monitor
the state of the whole power supply network. Different kinds of
contingencies can occur in the power supply network. Some
contingencies such as generator or line trips can have an impact on
the stability of the power supply network and can be visualized
through the data that is generated by the in-field measurement
devices of the power supply network. In-field measurement devices,
in particular PMUs, can provide measurement data with a high
resolution. However, this leads to huge amounts of measurement data
generated by the in-field measurement devices which have to be
processed by a processing unit. Even though the contingencies in
the power supply network can be visualized through the recorded
measurement data, the analysis of the received huge amount of
measurement data has to be done by experienced engineers manually.
The measurement data received by the in-field measurement devices
of the power supply network are for instance analyzed to detect a
root cause of the observed contingency. Since the analysis of the
huge amount of measurement data is mostly performed manually, the
analysis is very cumbersome and time-consuming. In addition, the
analysis of the measurement data does not have an impact on the
actual decisions that are taken during the event of the contingency
due to the large delay of insights about the observed contingency
caused by the complex manual analysis. For example, a manual
analysis of measurement data received by in-field measurement
devices of a power supply network in response to a contingency
event can take up to three months. However, in case of a
contingency which threatens the stability of the power supply
network decisions have to be made in less than a minute to be
effective.
[0003] Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to
provide a method and system for recognizing contingencies in a
power supply network automatically in short time.
[0004] This object is achieved according to a first aspect of the
present invention by a method for recognizing a contingency in a
power supply network comprising the features of claim 1.
[0005] The invention provides according to a first aspect a method
for recognizing a contingency in a power supply network, the method
comprising the steps of:
[0006] processing measurement data generated by in-field
measurement devices of said power supply network by a local network
state estimation model to calculate local network state
profiles;
[0007] generating a global network state profile from the local
network state profiles,
[0008] processing the measurement data generated by the in-field
measurement devices of said power supply network to provide a
relevance profile comprising for the in-field measurement devices a
relevance distribution indicating a probability where the origin of
a contingency within the power supply network resides, and
[0009] computing a similarity between a candidate contingency
profile being formed by the generated global network state profile
and formed by the calculated relevance profile and reference
contingency profiles stored in a reference contingency database to
identify the reference contingency profile having the highest
computed similarity as the recognized contingency.
[0010] In a possible embodiment of the method for recognizing a
contingency in a power supply network according to the first aspect
of the present invention, the local network state profile comprises
a local contingency class probability profile comprising for the
in-field measurement devices a class probability distribution over
contingency classes.
[0011] In a further possible embodiment of the method according to
the first aspect of the present invention, the local network state
profile comprises a local latent contingency profile.
[0012] In a still further possible embodiment of the method
according to the first aspect of the present invention, the infield
measurement devices comprise phasor measurement units which provide
time series of measurement data in different measurement
channels.
[0013] In a still further possible embodiment of the method for
recognizing a contingency in a power supply network according to
the first aspect of the present invention, the local network state
estimation model is formed by a model which generates a latent
feature representation of the local network state such as a tensor
factorization model.
[0014] In a still further possible embodiment of the method
according to the first aspect of the present invention, each
reference contingency profile stored in the reference contingency
database comprises a reference global network state profile and a
reference relevance profile.
[0015] In a still further possible embodiment of the method
according to the first aspect of the present invention, a
similarity metric indicating a similarity between the candidate
contingency profile and a reference contingency profile is computed
for each reference contingency profile stored in the reference
contingency database depending on the global network state profile
of the candidate contingency profile and depending on the global
network state profile of the respective reference contingency
profile.
[0016] In a still further possible embodiment of the method
according to the first aspect of the present invention, the used
similarity metric comprises a weighted cosine similarity
metric.
[0017] In a still further possible embodiment of the method
according to the first aspect of the present invention, the
measurement data generated by each in-field measurement device of
the power supply network is preprocessed to provide a standard
deviation of the measurement data from an expected value in a
steady state for each measurement channel of the respective
in-field measurement device.
[0018] In a still further possible embodiment of the method
according to the first aspect of the present invention, the
preprocessed measurement data is rescaled by dividing it through
the channel and in-field measurement device specific standard
deviation.
[0019] In a still further possible embodiment of the method
according to the first aspect of the present invention, a relevance
weight is calculated for each in-field measurement device by
normalizing the standard deviation of the measurement data of the
respective in-field measurement device to provide the relevance
profile.
[0020] In a still further possible embodiment of the method
according to the first aspect of the present invention, the local
network state estimation models are trained with measurement data
of observed contingencies of the power supply network.
[0021] The invention further provides according to a second aspect
a monitoring system adapted to recognize a contingency in a power
supply network comprising the features of claim 16.
[0022] The invention provides according to the second aspect a
monitoring system adapted to recognize a contingency in a power
supply network, the monitoring system comprising:
[0023] in-field measurement devices adapted to generate measurement
data of said power supply network and
[0024] a processing unit adapted to process the measurement data
generated by the in-field measurement devices of the power supply
network by using a local network state estimation model to
calculate local network state profiles and to generate a global
network state profile,
[0025] wherein said processing unit is further adapted to process
the measurement data generated by the in-field measurement devices
of said power supply network to provide a relevance profile
comprising for the in-field measurement devices a relevance
distribution indicating a probability where the origin of a
contingency within the power supply network resides,
[0026] wherein the processing unit is further adapted to compute a
similarity between a candidate contingency profile formed by the
generated global network state profile and by the calculated
relevance profile and reference contingency profiles stored in a
reference contingency database of said monitoring system to
identify the reference contingency profile having the highest
computed similarity as the recognized contingency within the power
supply network.
[0027] In a possible embodiment of the monitoring system according
to the second aspect of the present invention, the in-field
measurement devices comprise phasor measurement units which are
adapted to provide time series of measurement data in different
measurement channels.
[0028] The invention further provides according to a third aspect a
method for recognizing contingencies in a power supply network
comprising the steps of:
[0029] processing measurement data generated by in-field
measurement devices of said power supply network by associated
neural attention models to provide a global network state profile
of the power supply network comprising for the in-field measurement
devices of said power supply network a class probability
distribution over contingency classes,
[0030] processing the measurement data generated by the in-field
measurement devices of said power supply network to provide a
relevance profile of said power supply network comprising for the
in-field measurement devices a relevance distribution indicating a
probability where the origin of a contingency within the power
supply network resides, and
[0031] comparing the calculated global network state profile of
said power supply network and the calculated relevance profile of
said power supply network with reference contingency profiles
stored in a reference contingency database to recognize
contingencies in said power supply network.
[0032] In a possible embodiment of the method according to the
third aspect of the present invention, each neural attention model
associated with a corresponding in-field measurement device is used
to calculate a local network state profile for the power supply
network at the respective in-field measurement device.
[0033] In a further possible embodiment of the method according to
the third aspect of the present invention, the local network state
profiles of the different in-field measurement devices are
concatenated to provide the global network state profile of the
power supply network.
[0034] In a still further possible embodiment of the method
according to the third aspect of the present invention, the infield
measurement devices comprise phasor measurement units which provide
time series of measurement data in different measurement
channels.
[0035] In a still further possible embodiment of the method
according to the third aspect of the present invention, the neural
attention model comprises a convolutional layer to smooth
measurement data received by an associated in-field measurement
device of the power supply network.
[0036] In a still further possible embodiment of the method
according to the third aspect of the present invention, the neural
attention model associated with a corresponding in-field
measurement device of the power supply network comprises at least
one recurrent neural network layer to capture the time dependency
of the received measurement data.
[0037] In a still further possible embodiment of the method
according to the third aspect of the present invention, the neural
attention model associated with an in-field measurement device of
the power supply network comprises an attention layer which weights
outputs of the last recurrent neural network layer of said neural
attention model with the output of an associated feed-forward
attention subnetwork receiving channel-wise context information
data indicating a steady state of the power supply network at the
respective in-field measurement device.
[0038] In a still further possible embodiment of the method
according to the third aspect of the present invention, the neural
attention model associated with a corresponding in-field
measurement device of the power supply network comprises a
classification layer which receives the weighted outputs of the
last recurrent neural network layer of said neural attention
network to calculate a local network state profile for the power
supply network at the respective in-field measurement device
indicating a predicted class probability distribution over
contingency classes.
[0039] In a still further possible embodiment of the method
according to the third aspect of the present invention, each
reference contingency profile stored in the reference contingency
database comprises a reference global network state profile and a
reference relevance profile.
[0040] In a still further possible embodiment of the method
according to the third aspect of the present invention, a
similarity metric indicating a similarity between a candidate
contingency profile formed by the global network state profile and
the relevance profile of the power supply network and a reference
contingency profile is computed for each reference contingency
profile stored in the reference contingency database depending on
the global network state profile of the candidate contingency
profile and depending on the global network state profile of the
respective reference contingency profile.
[0041] In a still further possible embodiment of the method
according to the third aspect of the present invention, for each
reference contingency profile stored in the reference contingency
database, a first similarity metric is calculated depending on the
global network state profile of the candidate contingency profile
and depending on the global network state profile of the reference
contingency profile and a second similarity metric is computed
depending on the relevance profile of the candidate contingency
profile and depending on the relevance profile of the reference
contingency profile.
[0042] In a still further possible embodiment of the method
according to the third aspect of the present invention, a
similarity metric indicating a similarity between the candidate
contingency profile and the reference contingency profile is
computed as a function of the calculated first similarity metric
and the calculated second similarity metric.
[0043] In a further possible embodiment of the method according to
the third aspect of the present invention, a similarity metric
indicating a similarity between the candidate contingency profile
and a reference contingency profile is computed as an average of
the first similarity metric and the second similarity metric.
[0044] In a possible embodiment of the method according to the
third aspect of the present invention, the measurement data
generated by each in-field measurement device of said power supply
network is preprocessed to provide a standard deviation of the
measurement data from an expected value in a steady state for each
measurement channel of the respective in-field measurement
device.
[0045] In a possible embodiment of the method according to the
third aspect of the present invention, the preprocessed measurement
data is rescaled by dividing it through the channel and infield
measurement device specific standard deviation.
[0046] In a further possible embodiment of the method according to
the third aspect of the present invention, a relevance weight is
calculated for each in-field measurement device by normalizing the
standard deviation of the measurement data of the respective
in-field measurement device to provide the relevance profile of the
power supply network.
[0047] In a further possible embodiment of the method according to
the third aspect of the present invention, the neural attention
models are trained with measurement data of observed contingencies
of the power supply network.
[0048] The invention further provides according to a fourth aspect
a monitoring system adapted to recognize contingencies in a power
supply network,
[0049] said monitoring system comprising:
[0050] in-field measurement devices adapted to generate measurement
data of said power supply network,
[0051] a processing unit adapted to process the measurement data
generated by the in-field measurement devices of said power supply
network by associated neural attention models to provide a global
network state profile of the power supply network comprising for
the in-field measurement devices of the power supply network a
class probability distribution over contingency classes,
[0052] wherein the processing unit is further adapted to process
the measurement data generated by the in-field measurement devices
of the power supply network to provide a relevance profile of said
power supply network comprising for the in-field measurement
devices a relevance distribution indicating a probability where the
origin of a contingency within the power supply network
resides,
[0053] wherein the processing unit is further adapted to compare
the calculated global network state profile of said power supply
network and the calculated relevance profile of said power supply
network with reference contingency profiles stored in a reference
contingency database of said monitoring system to recognize
contingencies in said power supply network.
[0054] In a possible embodiment of the monitoring system according
to the fourth aspect of the present invention, the in-field
measurement devices comprise phasor measurement units which provide
time series of measurement data in different measurement
channels.
[0055] In a possible embodiment of the monitoring system according
to the fourth aspect of the present invention, each neural
attention model comprises a convolutional layer adapted to smooth
measurement data received by an associated in-field measurement
device of the power supply network,
[0056] at least one recurrent neural network layer adapted to
capture a time dependency of the received measurement data, and a
classification layer adapted to weight the received outputs of the
last recurrent neural network layer of said neural attention
network to calculate a local network state profile for the power
supply network at the respective in-field measurement device
indicating a predicted class probability distribution over
contingency classes.
[0057] In the following, possible embodiments of the different
aspects of the present invention are described in more detail with
reference to the enclosed figures.
[0058] In the cases where the modelling of Long-Term dependencies
is required, the recurrent neural network layer consists of Gated
Recurrent Units, GRUs, of Long-Term Short-Term Memory (LSTM) which
enable the network to capture these Long Term dependencies.
[0059] FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a possible exemplary
embodiment of a monitoring system for recognizing contingencies in
a power supply network according to an aspect of the present
invention;
[0060] FIG. 2 shows a flowchart of a possible exemplary embodiment
of a method for recognizing a contingency in a power supply network
according to an aspect of the present invention;
[0061] FIG. 3 shows a diagram for illustrating a local network
state computed from measurement data generated by an in-field
measurement device to illustrate a possible exemplary embodiment of
a method for recognizing a contingency in a power supply network
according to an aspect of the present invention;
[0062] FIG. 4 illustrates a generated global network state profile
used by a method and system for recognizing a contingency in a
power supply network according to the present invention;
[0063] FIG. 5 shows a schematic diagram of an exemplary reference
profile to illustrate the operation of a method and system for
recognizing a contingency in a power supply network according to
the present invention;
[0064] FIG. 6 shows schematically an example of a calculated final
similarity of an observed contingency profile to reference
contingency profiles stored in a reference contingency
database;
[0065] FIG. 7 shows a flowchart of a possible exemplary embodiment
of a method for recognizing contingencies in a power supply network
according to a further aspect of the present invention;
[0066] FIGS. 8, 9 show a schematic diagram illustrating a possible
exemplary embodiment of a neural attention model as used by a
monitoring system according to an aspect of the present
invention;
[0067] FIG. 10 shows a schematic diagram for illustrating a soft
classification with confidences for a single in-field measurement
device for illustrating the operation of a method and apparatus
according to the present invention;
[0068] FIG. 11 shows a further schematic diagram for illustrating a
soft classification with confidences for in-field measurement
devices for illustrating the operation of a method and system for
recognizing contingencies in a power supply network according to an
aspect of the present invention;
[0069] FIGS. 12, 13 illustrate a similarity comparison of target
soft classification patterns against soft classification patterns
of known reference contingencies;
[0070] FIG. 14 shows a schematic diagram showing a final similarity
of input contingency data to known reference contingencies by
combining similarities from a soft classification pattern with
similarities of a location pattern;
[0071] FIG. 15-19 show an attention mechanism of a neural attention
model as illustrated in FIG. 8
[0072] As can be seen in the schematic block diagram of FIG. 1, a
monitoring system 1 according to an aspect of the present invention
is adapted in the illustrated embodiment to recognize contingencies
in a power supply network 2. The power supply network 2 can be any
kind of network supplying power to power consumption entities. In a
possible embodiment, the power supply network 2 is formed by an
electrical grid providing electrical power to consumption devices.
The monitoring system 1 comprises in the illustrated embodiment
in-field measurement devices 3-1, 3-2 . . . 3-n adapted to generate
measurement data MD of the power supply network 2. In a possible
embodiment, the in-field measurement devices 3-i comprise different
kinds of sensors adapted to generate different kinds of measurement
data MD of the power supply network 2. In a possible embodiment,
the in-field measurement devices 3-i include phasor measurement
units PMUs. The phasor measurement units PMUs measure electrical
waves of the power supply network 2, in particular phase current
phasors, phase voltage phasors and their frequency. In-field
measurement devices 3-i can include other sensor devices as well.
For instance, the infield measurement devices 3-i can also include
devices providing environmental data such as temperature or the
like.
[0073] The monitoring system 1 comprises in the illustrated
embodiment of FIG. 1 a processing unit 4 adapted to process the
measurement data MD generated by the in-field measurement devices
3-i of the power supply network 2 by associated neural attention
models to provide a global network state profile GNSP of the power
supply network 2 comprising for the infield measurement devices 3-i
of the power supply network 2 a class probability distribution over
contingency classes. The processing unit 4 of the monitoring system
1 is further adapted to process the measurement data MD generated
by the in-field measurement devices 3-i of the power supply network
2 to provide a relevance profile RP of the power supply network 2
comprising for the in-field measurement devices 3-i a relevance
distribution indicating a probability where the origin of a
contingency within the power supply network 2 resides.
[0074] As can be seen in FIG. 1, the measurement data MD generated
by the in-field measurement devices 3-i of the power supply network
2 are processed by a local network state estimation model LNSM to
calculate local network state profiles LNSP. A generation unit 4A
of the processing unit 4 is adapted to generate a global network
state profile GNSP from the local network state profiles LNSP as
illustrated in FIG. 1.
[0075] The measurement data MD generated by the in-field
measurement devices 3-i of the power supply network 2 are further
processed by a processor 4B of the processing unit 4 to provide a
relevance profile RP as illustrated in FIG. 1. The relevance
profile RP comprises for the in-field measurement devices 3-i a
relevance distribution indicating a probability where the origin of
a contingency within the power supply network 2 resides.
[0076] As can be seen in FIG. 1, a candidate contingency profile
CCP is formed by the generated global network state profile GNSP
and by the calculated relevance profile RP.
[0077] The processing unit 4 of the monitoring system 1 further
comprises a computation unit 4C adapted to compute a similarity
between the candidate contingency profile CCP and reference
contingency profiles rCP stored in a reference contingency database
5 of the monitoring system 1 to identify the reference contingency
profile rCP having the highest computed similarity as being the
recognized contingency within the power supply network 2.
[0078] In a possible embodiment of the monitoring system 1 as
illustrated in FIG. 1, the local network state profiles LNSPi
comprise each a local contingency class probability profile
comprising for the different in-field measurement devices 3-i of
the power supply network 2 a class probability distribution over
contingency classes. In an alternative embodiment, each local
network state profile LNSP can also comprise a local latent
contingency profile.
[0079] The in-field measurement devices 3-i of the power supply
network 2 can comprise phasor measurement units PMUs which provide
time series of measurement data in different measurement channels
c. The local network state estimation model LNSM can be formed in a
possible embodiment by a neural attention model. The neural
attention model can comprise a convolutional layer to smooth
measurement data MD received by associated in-field measurement
devices 3-i. The neural attention model further can comprise in a
possible embodiment at least one recurrent neural network, RNN,
layer followed by a neural attention layer.
[0080] Each reference contingency profile rCP stored in the
reference contingency database 5 can comprise in a possible
embodiment a reference global network state profile rGNSP and a
reference relevance profile rRP.
[0081] In a possible embodiment of the monitoring system 1 as
illustrated in FIG. 1, a similarity metric SM indicating a
similarity between the candidate contingency profile CCP and a
reference contingency profile rCP is computed by the computation
unit 4C for each reference contingency profile rCP stored in the
reference contingency database 5 depending on the global network
state profile GNSP of the candidate contingency profile CCP and
depending on the global network state profile GNSP of the
respective reference contingency profile rCP read from the database
5. The computed similarity metric SM can comprise in a possible
implementation a weighted cosine similarity metric.
[0082] In a possible embodiment of the monitoring system 1 as shown
in FIG. 1, for each reference contingency profile rCP stored in the
reference contingency database 5, a first similarity metric SM1 and
a second similarity metric SM2 is computed. The first similarity
metric SM1 is calculated depending on the global network state
profile GNSP of the candidate contingency profile CCP and depending
on the global network state profile GNSP of the reference
contingency profile rCP. The second similarity metric SM2 is
computed depending on the relevance profile RP of the candidate
contingency profile CCP and depending on the relevance profile RP
of the reference contingency profile rCP. Further, a final
similarity metric SM is then computed as a function of the
calculated first similarity metric SM1 and the calculated second
similarity metric SM2 by the computation unit 4C. The similarity
metric SM indicating a similarity between the candidate contingency
profile CCP and the reference contingency profile rCP is computed
in this embodiment as a function of the calculated first similarity
metric SM1 and the calculated second similarity metric SM2. In a
possible specific embodiment, a similarity metric SM indicating a
similarity between the candidate contingency profile CCP and a
reference contingency profile rCP is computed by the computation
unit 4C as an average of the first similarity metric SM1 and the
second similarity metric SM2.
[0083] In a possible embodiment, the measurement data MD generated
by each in-field measurement devices 3-i of the power supply
network 2 can be preprocessed to provide a standard deviation of
the measurement data from an expected value in a steady state for
each measurement channel of the respective in-field measurement
device 3-i. Then, the preprocessed measurement data MD can be
rescaled by dividing it through the channel and in-field
measurement device specific standard deviation. In a possible
embodiment, a relevance weight is calculated for each in-field
measurement device 3-i by normalizing the standard deviation of the
measurement data MD of the respective in-field measurement device
3-i to provide the relevance profile RP. The local network state
estimation models LNSM used by the processing unit 4 can be trained
in a possible embodiment with measurement data of observed
contingencies of the power supply network 2.
[0084] FIG. 2 shows a flowchart of a possible exemplary embodiment
of a method for recognizing contingencies in a power supply network
2 according to a first aspect of the present invention. In the
illustrated embodiment, the method comprises several main
steps.
[0085] In a first step S21, measurement data MD generated by
infield measurement devices 3-i of the power supply network 2 are
processed by a local network state estimation model LNSM to
calculate local network state profiles LNSPi.
[0086] In a further step S22, the global network state profile GNSP
is generated from the calculated local network state profiles
LNSPi. This can be performed for instance by a generation subunit
4A of the processing unit 4.
[0087] In a further step S23, the measurement data MD generated by
the in-field measurement devices 3-i of the power supply network 2
are processed to provide a relevance profile RP. This relevance
profile RP comprises for the in-field measurement devices 3-i a
relevance distribution indicating a probability where the origin of
a contingency within the power supply network 2 does reside. The
generation of the global network state profile GNSP in step S22 and
the generation of the relevance profile RP in step S23 can also be
performed in parallel to save processing time in a possible
embodiment.
[0088] In a further step S24, a similarity between a candidate
contingency profile CCP and reference contingency profiles rCP is
computed. The candidate contingency profile CCP is formed by the
generated global network state profile GNSP and by the calculated
relevance profile RP as also illustrated in FIG. 1. The reference
contingency profiles rCP are stored in a reference contingency
database 5 of the monitoring system 1. The similarity between the
candidate contingency profile CCP and the reference contingency
profiles rCP read from the reference contingency database 5 is
computed to identify the reference contingency profile rCP having
the highest computed similarity. The identified reference
contingency profile rCP showing the highest computed similarity is
recognized as the contingency having occurred in the power supply
network 2.
[0089] The in-field measurement devices 3-i of the monitoring
system 1 as illustrated in FIG. 1 can measure data on different
channels c. Each channel c can comprise a time series of specific
data such as a current of a phase L in an electrical grid. In a
possible embodiment, the measurement data can be preprocessed. The
in-field measurement devices 3-i can comprise phasor measurement
units PMUs. Given a set of contingency observed in the power supply
network 2 simulated by a proper simulation program such as SIGUARD
DSA one can observe phasors for current and phasors for voltage
from each of the in-field PMU measurement devices 3-i placed in the
power supply network 2. First, symmetrical components and the
active and reactive power from these signals can be computed.
Further, for each PMU, a signal standard deviation can be estimated
for each of its channels c. Further, signals can be rescaled by
these values by dividing them through the channel and PMU specific
standard deviation.
[0090] For example, if the power supply network 2 is monitored by
100 PMUs as in-field measurement devices 3-i it is possible to
measure 3-phase currents and 3-phase voltages. Accordingly, twelve
sensor signals are retrieved for each PMU 3-i, i.e. three times a
voltage amplitude, three times a voltage angle, three times a
current amplitude and three times a current angle. This leads to
1200 sensor signals in total. From these sensor signals, it is
possible to compute eight additional signals for each PMU
coexisting of the symmetrical components of the current (three
signals), the symmetrical components of the voltage (three signals)
and active as well as reactive power, leading to 800 additional
signals in total. Given these 800 signals, it is possible to
compute 800 standard deviation values and to divide the 800 signals
by the corresponding value.
[0091] For each contingency occurring in the power supply network
2, a snapshot of data is available reflecting the steady state of
the power supply network 2 before the contingency has happened in
the power supply network 2. This snapshot data can be used to
compute a PMU-wise expected value or a mean value for each channel
c and subtract these values from the measurement data MD. In this
way, the subsequent calculation steps are only performed on
deviations observed from the steady state. The local network state
model LNSM or state estimator model can represent any kind of model
that extracts some (weighted) state representation from the
incoming measurement data MD. In a possible embodiment, a machine
learning ML based model can be used. The machine learning ML based
model can comprise a tensor factorization model or an encoder part
of an encoder-decoder neural network, e.g. an autoencoder.
[0092] In a possible embodiment, the model is trained by providing
it with a set of observed contingencies preprocessed as described
above. The measurement signals or measurement data MD are rescaled
and only contain a deviation from an expected value of the steady
state. Each set of measurements of a single PMU can be treated as a
single training example. The training architecture of the model can
consist of an encoder and decoder part. The encoder first projects
the input sample onto a representation that is of lower
dimensionality than the original input data. After this step, the
decoder part of the architecture is used to reconstruct the
original data from this lower dimensional representation. During
the training of such an approach, the model gets penalized for not
reconstructing the input samples properly. As a consequence, the
model can only reduce this penalty by compressing relevant
information in the lower dimensional representation (the
bottleneck) that describes enough features to successfully
reconstruct the original signal. During training, the model learns
a mapping from the input data to these features that satisfy this
goal as best as possible. In a possible embodiment, a regularized
square error loss can be used between the true measurements and the
measurement reconstructed from the latent state representation by
the decoder.
L(X,.theta.)=(X-f.sub.0(X)).sup.2+.lamda..parallel..theta..parallel..sub-
.2.sup.2,
where L is a loss function and .theta. are the free parameters of
the model. f.sub..theta. is the encoder-decoder network for any
other bottleneck architecture such as tensor factorization. The
last summand of the above equation is a regularization term on the
free parameters of the model that prevents overfitting during model
training.
[0093] After training, it can be assumed that the features of the
encoder do map the input data on represented important
characteristics of the observed input signals. As an example, these
features can represent abstract concepts such as "A sharp peak
followed by a slow decay". However, in general, these features are
not always interpretable. With the method according to the present
invention, these methods are used as a representation of the local
network state LNS captured by the individual in-field measurement
device 3-i. They are computed by only applying the encoder part of
the model on the input data as illustrated in FIG. 3.
[0094] FIG. 3 illustrates a local network state profile LNSP
computed from data of a single in-field measurement device 3-i. In
the illustrated example, there are nine different features F1 to F9
reflecting the local network state, LNS, of the power supply
network 2 at the respective in-field measurement device 3-i. In the
illustrated example of FIG. 3, feature F1 is prominent. The local
network state profile LNSPi as illustrated in the example of FIG. 3
can be supplied to the generation subunit 4A of the processing unit
4 as illustrated in FIG. 1 and used to generate the global network
state profile GNSP.
[0095] FIG. 4 shows schematically an example of a global network
state profile GNSP. The global network state profile GNSP comprises
the local network state profiles LNSPi from a plurality of in-field
measurement devices 3-i. Each in-field measurement device 3-i such
as a PMU can comprise an associated measurement device ID. In a
possible embodiment, the different local network state profiles
LNSP can be concatenated to generate a global network state profile
GNSP as illustrated in FIG. 4. For a global network state
estimation for an observed contingency happening in the power
supply network 2 it is possible to apply a state estimator model on
every in-field measurement device 3-i independently. This provides
a global profile of the global network state considering all
estimated local network states. In the illustrated example of FIG.
4, each bar represents the value of the nth feature of the local
network state LNS computed for each PMU in the observed
contingency. The x-axis of the diagram of FIG. 4 represents the
different PMU IDs of the different infield measurement devices
3-i.
[0096] For example, the system can be trained with training data of
50 contingencies. For each contingency, measurement data MD can be
provided from 100 PMUs (the PMUs are the in-field measurement
devices that monitor the target power supply network). In this
example, it is possible to extract 5000 examples or samples for the
model training. If, for instance, each contingency is measured for
12 time steps, a single input example can consist of 8.times.12=72
values. For instance, it can be assumed that one wants to learn 10
features to describe a network state. In this specific example, the
model is trained by passing the 5000 examples in small batches or
as a whole to the model to learn the parameters of the encoder and
decoder mapping functions to optimize the reconstruction target. In
this model, the encoder can learn a function
h.sub.1=f.sub.enc(X.sub.i), wherein X.sub.i is the input data (72
values) and h.sub.i is the estimated network state (10 values). The
decoder in turn can learn a function {tilde over
(X)}.sub.i=f.sub.dec(h.sub.i), wherein {tilde over (X)}.sub.1 is
the approximated input (the reconstruction).
[0097] In a possible embodiment, an importance weighting for each
in-field measurement device 3-i placed in the power supply network
2 is calculated based on the preprocessed data, e.g. the signals
are rescaled and only contain the deviation from the expected value
of the steady state.
q p = c t ( x pct - .mu. pc ) 2 ##EQU00001## w p = q p p q p ,
##EQU00001.2##
wherein x.sub.pct is the measured value of channel c of in-field
PMU measurement device p at time step t and .mu..sub.pc is the
expected value of in-field measurement device PMU p and channel c.
After computing the deviation values q.sub.p for all in-field
measurement devices p, the deviation values are normalized
providing a relative importance w.sub.p for each in-field
measurement device 3-i. This step can be seen as computing a
normalized Euclidean distance between the observed measurements and
the expected values of the steady state.
[0098] FIG. 5 illustrates importance scores or relevance r for
infield measurement 3-i devices given the data MD of an observed
contingency. Each bar of the diagram represents an importance of an
in-field measurement device 3-i such as a PMU for the observed
contingency. The x-axis represents the different IDs of the
in-field measurement devices. In the illustrated specific example,
the in-field measurement devices with the IDs 156, 157 are most
prominent indicating the importance or relevance for the observed
contingency.
[0099] In a possible embodiment, a weighted cosine similarity can
be used as a metric for computing a similarity between profiles as
follows:
cos ( u , v , w ^ ) = i w ^ i u i v i i w ^ i u i 2 i w ^ i v i 2
##EQU00002##
wherein u and v are the global network states of two contingencies
j and k and wherein w is a weight vector that is computed from two
PMU importance scores from each contingency by taking the maximum
of each value:
w.sub.i=max(w.sub.jiw.sub.ki)
[0100] After training the state estimator model, it is possible to
build a reference database of a target contingency. It is possible
to select the data of suitable target contingencies and construct a
contingency profile for each of the target contingencies and store
them in a database.
[0101] For each newly detected contingency within the power supply
network 2, the measurement data MD is recorded and a contingency
profile is computed using the state estimator model and the steady
state. This candidate contingency profile CCP can be compared to
all contingency profiles CPs stored in the reference database 5
using for instance the weighted cosine similarity metric as
described above. The returned similarity computed by the
computation unit 4C can be used to rank the contingency profiles
with respect to their similarity to the input candidate contingency
profile CCP. The similarity values indicate how similar an observed
contingency within the power supply network 2 is to the
corresponding contingency profiles stored in the reference database
5.
[0102] FIG. 6 illustrates an example of a final similarity of an
observed contingency to the contingencies stored in the reference
database 5. Each field of FIG. 6 indicates how similar an observed
contingency is to a corresponding contingency stored in the
reference database 5. In FIG. 6, there are illustrated different
contingency classes comprising for instance short circuits SC, line
outages LO, generator outages GO or capacitor outages CO. With the
method for recognizing contingency in a power supply network 2
according to the first aspect of the present invention, it is
possible to recognize a contingency in a power supply network 2
automatically and near real time with high reliability.
[0103] A model is learned for observations of single in-field
measurement devices deriving a local network state representation
that reflects an observation at the respective in-field measurement
device 3-i. In-field measurement devices 3-i, in particular PMUs
that are removed from the monitored power supply network 2 do not
require a retraining of the state estimator model. If an in-field
measurement device is removed from the power supply network 2, a
local state representation for this removed in-field measurement
device is not computed and the local state representations for the
reference contingencies are removed from the reference database 5.
Similar, outages of in-field measurement devices 3-i can be
naturally treated by ignoring the local state representation for
these in-field measurement devices 3-i. In this case, the local
state representation of the in-field measurement device can be
ignored in the reference contingencies when computing the
similarities.
[0104] Since a general model is learned for local state
representations observed by in-field measurement devices, it is
possible to add and relocate in-field measurement devices at will
without the need to retrain the model from scratch. All changes
only influence the reference database 5 for which the state
estimator model LNSM is applied on the new contingency data MD.
[0105] The system is flexible in the number of in-field measurement
devices 3-i and associated local state representations LNSPs. It is
possible to consider older contingencies with deviating number of
in-field measurement devices 3-i when searching for a similar
contingency in the reference database 5. This is of special
importance if the reference database 5 is filled with real
contingencies instead of simulated contingencies.
[0106] After having learned a general model that extracts local
state representations from in-field measurement devices 3-i, the
approach according to the present invention can be even power
network independent, applying the same trained model on various
different power supply networks. Knowledge about the expected
located of an observed contingency is considered explicitly by the
method and system according to the present invention when computing
the similarity between two contingencies. This is especially
important in scenarios where large power supply networks PSNs are
monitored. In this scenario, effects of a contingency that can be
observed by the in-field measurement devices 3-i can be very local,
meaning that only a small portion of the placed in-field
measurement devices 3-i will measure any kind of effects caused by
the contingency. When comparing two contingencies only the local
state representations LNSPs of those in-field measurement devices
are considered which characterize the observed contingency. The
local state representations of the remaining other in-field
measurement devices do not contain any relevant information or
measurement data MD and can consequently be ignored.
[0107] After having recognized a contingency, a control unit of a
system can trigger countermeasures. Further, the recognized
contingency can be output to a user via a graphical user interface
of the monitoring system 1. After having initiated the
countermeasures it can be observed whether the recognized
contingency has been removed.
[0108] FIG. 1 shows a possible exemplary embodiment of a monitoring
system 1 according to an aspect of the present invention. The
processing unit 4 of the monitoring system 1 can be implemented on
a controller of the power supply network 2. Further, subunits of
the processing unit 4 can also be implemented on distributed
components connected to measurement devices 3-i of the power supply
network 2. In a possible embodiment, the computation unit 4C of the
processing unit 4 can output a reference contingency having the
highest similarity with the observed contingency. In a possible
embodiment, a control unit of the system 1 can generate
automatically control signals CRTL depending on the recognized
contingency to perform countermeasures to remove the recognized
contingency in the power supply network 2. This control unit can
provide control signals to control actuators within the power
supply network 2, in particular switching means. For example, in
response to a recognized contingency, switches can be triggered to
switch off subsystems or components of the power supply network 2.
Further, components or subsystems can be switched on to replace
affected components of the power supply network 2. After having
performed the switching, it can in a further step be evaluated
whether the recognized contingency has been removed in the power
supply network 2. The recognition of the contingency in the power
supply network as well as the performance of the countermeasures
can be performed automatically in real time.
[0109] FIG. 7 shows a flowchart of a possible exemplary embodiment
of the method for recognizing a contingency in a power supply
network 2 according to a further aspect of the present invention.
In the illustrated embodiment of FIG. 7, the method for recognizing
contingencies in the power supply network 2 comprises three main
steps.
[0110] In a first step S71, measurement data MD generated by
infield measurement devices 3-i of the power supply network 2 are
processed by associated neural attention models to provide a global
network state profile GNSP of the power supply network 2 comprising
for the in-field measurement devices 3-i of the power supply
network 2 a class probability distribution over contingency
classes.
[0111] In a further step S72, measurement data MD generated by the
in-field measurement devices 3 of the power supply network 2 are
processed to provide a relevance profile RP of the power supply
network 2 comprising for the in-field measurement devices 3-i a
relevance distribution indicating a probability where the origin of
the contingency within the power supply network 2 resides.
[0112] In a possible embodiment, step S71 and step S72 can be
performed in parallel to reduce the required computation time for
recognizing a contingency in the power supply network 2.
[0113] In a further step S73, the calculated global network state
profile GNSP of the power supply network 2 and the calculated
relevance profile RP of the power supply network 2 are compared
with reference contingency profiles rCP stored in a reference
contingency database 5 to recognize a contingency in the power
supply network 2.
[0114] Each neural attention model associated with a corresponding
in-field measurement device 3 can be used to calculate a local
network state profile LNSP for the power supply network 2 at the
respective in-field measurement device 3. In a possible embodiment,
the local network state profiles LNSP of the different in-field
measurement devices 3 are concatenated to provide the global
network state profile GNSP of the power supply network 2.
[0115] The neural attention model LNSM comprises in a possible
embodiment a convolutional layer CONL to smooth measurement data MD
received by associated in-field measurement devices 3 of the power
supply network 2. The neural attention model LNSM associated with a
corresponding in-field measurement device 3 of the power supply
network 2 comprises at least one recurrent neural network, RNN,
layer to capture a time-dependency of the received measurement data
MD. The neural attention model associated with an in-field
measurement device 3 of the power supply network 2 comprises in a
possible embodiment an attention layer which weights outputs of the
last recurrent neural network, RNN, layer of the neural attention
model with the output of an associated feed-forward attention
subnetwork receiving channel-wise context information data
indicating a steady state of the power supply network 2 at the
respective in-field measurement device 3.
[0116] FIG. 8 shows schematically a neural attention model NAM
which can be used by the method and system according to the present
invention. The neural attention model of FIG. 8 can form a local
network state model LNSM as illustrated in FIG. 1.
[0117] As can be seen in the illustrated embodiment of FIG. 8, the
neural attention model comprises a convolutional layer CONL adapted
to smooth measurement data received by an associated in-field
measurement device 3-i of the power supply network 2. This
convolutional layer CONL forms a component to increase noise
robustness.
[0118] The neural attention model further comprises in the
illustrated embodiment two recurrent neural networks, RNN, layers
which are adapted to capture a time-dependency of the received
measurement data MD. Each recurrent neural network layer RNNL
comprises gated recurrent units GRUs as illustrated in FIG. 8.
[0119] The neural attention model LNSM further comprises in the
illustrated embodiment a classification layer CLAL adapted to
weight the received outputs of the last recurrent neural network
layer RNNL2 of said neural attention network to calculate a local
network state profile LNSP for the power supply network 2 at the
respective in-field measurement device 3 indicating a predicted
class probability distribution over contingency classes. In the
illustrated example of FIG. 8, the neural attention model LNSM
associated with an in-field measurement device 3 of the power
supply network 2 comprises an attention layer AL which weights
(w.sub.0-w.sub.7) outputs of the last recurrent neural network
layer RNNL2 of the neural attention model with the output of an
associated feed-forward attention subnetwork FFAS receiving
generalized context information data CID indicating a steady state
SS of the power supply network 2 at the respective in-field
measurement device 3. The neural attention model LNSM associated
with the corresponding in-field measurement device 3 comprises the
classification layer CLAL which receives the weighted outputs of
the last recurrent neural network layer RNNL2 of said neural
attention network to calculate a local network state profile LNSD
for the power supply network 3 at the respective in-field
measurement device 3 indicating a predicted class probability
distribution over contingency classes.
[0120] Each reference contingency profile rCP stored in the
reference contingency database 5 comprises a reference global
network state profile rGNSP and a reference relevance profile rRP.
A similarity metric SM indicating a similarity between a candidate
contingency profile CCP formed by the global network state profile
GNSP and the relevance profile RP of the power supply network 2 and
a reference contingency profile rCP is computed for each reference
contingency profile rCP stored in the reference contingency
database 5 depending on the global network state profile GNSP of
the candidate contingency profile CCP and depending on the global
network state profile GNSP of the respective reference contingency
profile rCP. The used similarity metric SM can comprise for
instance a weighted cosine similarity metric SM.
[0121] In the monitoring system 1 according to the present
invention, a profile is computed for the observed contingency data
wherein the profile consists of two main components. The first
component of this computed profile, i.e. candidate contingency
profile CCP, is a global network state profile GNSP indicating what
kinds of contingencies are observed in the power supply network 2,
i.e. the global network state profile GNSP can be regarded as a
"what pattern" indicating what kind of contingencies are observed
in the power supply network 2. The second component of the
candidate contingency profile CCP is indicating which in-field
measurement devices 3 are considered most relevant or important and
can be seen as an indicator where the origin of the contingency in
the power supply network 3 resides. Accordingly, the reference
profile RP can be seen as a "where pattern" indicating where the
ob31 served contingency has occurred. The combination of the "what
pattern" (global network state profile GNSP) and the "where
pattern" (relevance profile RP) provides a clear and specific
individual profile of a contingency in the power supply network 2
that can be automatically recognized given a set of reference
contingency profiles rCP stored in a database 5.
[0122] A possible embodiment of a neural attention model LNSM is
illustrated in FIG. 8. The neural attention model LNSM comprises
various subcomponents that increase the model's robustness toward
expected disturbances like noise, time-dependencies and fuzzy
anomaly detection that can have an impact on the contingency
recognition quality. In addition, it produces interpretable local
state representations that encode a probability distribution over
contingency classes such as short circuit SC, line loss LL,
generator outage GO, etc. This provides a better intuition about
recognition of a target contingency. For achieving high noise
robustness, a channel-wise convolution is performed with a single
filter on a time axis of the input measurement data MD of a single
in-field measurement device 3. Accordingly, the neural attention
model LNSM comprises as an input a convolutional layer CONL
receiving the contingency signal or measurement data MD from the
in-field measurement device 3 as illustrated in FIG. 9.
h t 0 = i s w i X 1 + i ( 1 ) ##EQU00003##
wherein X contains the preprocessed measurements of a single
in-field measurement device. X is of shape channels x time and w is
the filter vector of the shape s.times.s. The interpretation of the
convolutional layer CONL is that of a basic moving window signal
smoothing operator. Signal smoothing is used for counteracting
noise in signals. In contrast to conventional fixed smoothing
kernels, the applied smoothing can also be learned by the model
autonomously.
[0123] The dependencies across time in the data are directly
considered by using recurrent neural network layers RNNLs as
illustrated in FIG. 8. In the illustrated embodiment, two recurrent
neural network layers RNNL1, RNNL2 are stacked on top of the output
of the convolutional layer CONL. Each recurrent neural network
layer comprises gated recurrent units GRUs.
z.sub.t.sup.1=.sigma.(W.sub.z.sup.1h.sub.t.sup.0+U.sub.z.sup.1h.sub.t-1.-
sup.1+b.sub.z.sup.1)
r.sub.t.sup.1=(W.sub.r.sup.1h.sub.t.sup.0+U.sub.r.sup.1h.sub.t-1.sup.1+b-
.sub.r.sup.1)
h.sub.t.sup.1=(1-z.sub.t.sup.1).smallcircle..sigma..sub.h(W.sub.h.sup.1h-
.sub.t.sup.0+U.sub.h.sup.1(r.sub.t.sup.1.smallcircle.h.sub.t-1.sup.1)+b.su-
b.h.sup.1)+z.sub.t.sup.1.smallcircle.h.sub.t-1.sup.1
z.sub.t.sup.2=.sigma.(W.sub.z.sup.2h.sub.t.sup.1+U.sub.z.sup.2h.sub.t-1.-
sup.2+b.sub.z.sup.2)
r.sub.t.sup.2=(W.sub.r.sup.2h.sub.t.sup.1+U.sub.r.sup.2h.sub.t-1.sup.2+b-
.sub.r.sup.2)
h.sub.t.sup.2=(1-z.sub.t.sup.2).smallcircle..sigma..sub.h(W.sub.h.sup.2h-
.sub.t.sup.1+U.sub.h.sup.2(r.sub.t.sup.2.smallcircle.h.sub.t-1.sup.2)+b.su-
b.h.sup.2)+z.sub.t.smallcircle.h.sub.t-1.sup.2
[0124] Please note that the superscript indicates the layer index.
The formulas above correspond to a standard GRU formulation.
[0125] The neural attention model LNSM illustrated in FIG. 8
further comprises an attention mechanism which weights the
importance of the outputs of the last recurrent neural network
layer RNNL2.
h 3 = t T f att ( h t 2 , C ) h t 2 ##EQU00004## with
##EQU00004.2## f att ( h , C ) = .PHI. ( W att 1 .PHI. ( W att 0 [
h ; C ] + b att 0 ) + b att 1 ) ##EQU00004.3##
[0126] For this, each output of the last recurrent neural layer
RNNL2 is combined with context information C.sub.p. Context
information in the illustrated embodiment is formed by the steady
state, SS, signal provided by the respective in-field measurement
device 3 indicating a normal operation state of the power supply
network 2 at the location of the in-field measurement device 3. The
steady state signal SS of an in-field measurement device 3 forms
context information data CID that can be stored locally in a buffer
and can be read from the buffer in case that a contingency is
observed providing a contingency signal MD. This context
information CID can be applied to the attention subnetworks FFAS as
shown in FIG. 8.
[0127] The context information data CID can be supplied
channelwise. In the illustrated example of FIG. 9, the signal
diagram has two channels c1, c2.
[0128] The output of the attention subnetwork FFAS f.sub.att(h,C)
is a single weight w that is multiplied with the output of the
corresponding output from the last recurrent neural network layer
RNNL2 as shown in FIG. 8. Finally, the sum of the weighted outputs
is computed to produce a single output vector (h.sup.3). The
intuition behind this mechanism is as follows. Assuming that the
anomaly detection triggers too early and e.g. half of the time
window given to the model does not contain any anomalous data then
it is desired that the algorithm does ignore the first half of the
received data automatically and does focus on that part of the
received data that includes the important information. The model
does learn the behavior automatically from data to be able to
decide autonomously when applied on new incoming measurement data
MD. This is what the attention mechanism AL after the last
recurrent neural network layer RNNL2 is performing. Given some
context (i.e. steady state) CID and what the model knows so far,
i.e. the output of the recurrent neural network layer RNNL2, it can
reevaluate and weight the importance of the output at time step t,
before performing a final classification using the classification
layer CLAL.
[0129] The contingency class can be finally predicted by:
y ^ = .phi. ( W 4 h 3 + b 3 ) with .phi. ( x ) c = e x c c e x c
##EQU00005##
[0130] The classification layer CLAL provides a predicted
probability for each contingency class. This can be used as a local
network state profile LNSP.
[0131] The neural attention model LNSM as illustrated in FIG. 8 can
be learned end-to-end, meaning that all components are learned at
once. For training of the neural attention model, it is possible to
use a complete set of measurements of a single in-field measurement
device 3 as one training example which can be labeled with the
class of a contingency. For example, considering a power supply
network 2 monitored by 100 in-field measurement devices 3, a
contingency Short Circuit Line can result in 100 examples or
example datasets wherein each dataset can be labeled with Short
Circuit SC. In addition, one can perform random crops during
training on the examples (on the time axis) extracting fixed length
windows that can for instance span about 0.5 seconds from the
interval [-0.25; 0.75], wherein -0.25 points to time steps that lie
up to 0.25 seconds before the actual contingency has happened in
the power supply network 2. For each training example or dataset,
one can perform two random crops, wherein it is enforced that the
representations produced for the classification layer CLAL are of
high similarity. This can be accomplished by minimizing an additive
cost function that penalizes the combination of representation
dissimilarity and classification error of both crops.
L ( X , y , .theta. ) = - i y i log ( f .theta. ( X i , 1 ) ) - y i
log ( f .theta. ( X i , 2 ) ) + .beta. f sim ( g .theta. ( X i , 1
) , g .theta. ( X i , 2 ) ) ##EQU00006##
wherein f.sub..theta. is the neural attention model LNSM
parameterized by .theta. and y is the label of example dataset
i.
[0132] X.sub.i,1,X.sub.i,2 are the cropped examples and f.sub.sim
is a similarity function between the representations computed from
the cropped examples by the neural attention model LNSM without
applying the classification layer CLAL (h.sup.4). Further,
g.sub..theta. is the function of the sub neural network that
computes these representations. Further, .beta. is a scalar that
weights the impact of the similarity condition. The cost function
can be minimized with stochastic gradient descent using for
instance the ADAM step rule.
[0133] The neural attention model LNSM as illustrated in FIG. 8
predicts for the measurement data MD of each individual in-field
measurement device 3 a distribution over contingency classes
defining as such, for example short circuits SC, line outages LO or
generator outages GO to give come exemplary contingency classes.
Note that in contrast to conventional approaches (e.g. tensor
factorization), these contingency classes provide interpretable
meaning. Further, it is possible to include a specific class for
"Nothing happened" which allows to react properly on false
alarms.
[0134] FIG. 10 shows a soft classification with confidences or
probability values P for a single in-field measurement device 3
within the power supply network 2. The diagram of FIG. 10
illustrates the probability P for different contingency classes
such as BC (Bus Bar Trip) or General Outage (GO). In the
illustrated example, the contingency class SC+TO is most prominent
and comprises the highest probability P. FIG. 10 is a local network
state profile LNSP illustrating a local network state LNS within
the power supply network 2 at the location of the respective
in-field measurement device 3.
[0135] In a possible embodiment, a global representation of the
network state can be formed by concatenation of all local network
state profiles LNSPs as illustrated in FIG. 10. A global network
state profile GNSP which can be used by the system is illustrated
in FIG. 11. FIG. 11 shows a diagram illustrating a soft
classification with confidences for each in-field measurement
device 3. Each bar represents a class distribution of a single
in-field measurement device 3 as shown in FIG. 10.
[0136] In a possible embodiment, an importance weighting for each
in-field measurement device 3 placed in the power supply network 2
can be computed in parallel based on the preprocessed data, i.e.
the signals received from the in-field measurement devices 3 which
have been rescaled and only contain the deviation from an expected
value of the steady state SS.
[0137] FIG. 5 illustrates a diagram for illustrating an importance
or relevance r of different in-field measurement devices 3 for an
observed contingency. After having trained a state estimator model,
it is possible to build a reference database of target
contingencies to be detected in a power supply network 2. To
achieve this, it is possible to select the data of suitable target
contingencies and construct a contingency profile for each of the
target contingencies and store them in a contingency database.
[0138] The contingency profiles can be compared in three
substeps.
[0139] First, a cosine similarity between the "what pattern"
(global network state profile GNSP) and the "what pattern" of the
target contingency stored in the database 5 is computed as
follows:
cos ( u , v ) = i u i v i i u i 2 i v i 2 ##EQU00007##
[0140] Further, a cosine similarity between the "where pattern" of
the reference contingency and the "where pattern" of the target
contingency is computed as follows:
cos ( h , k ) = i h i k i i h i 2 i k i 2 ##EQU00008##
[0141] In the last substep, these two similarity scores can be
combined. This can be performed for example by taking the mean of
both values to get the similarity between the reference contingency
and the target contingency:
sim ( r , t ) = cos ( u , v ) + cos ( h , k ) 2 ##EQU00009##
[0142] An example of this approach is shown in FIGS. 12, 13
(substep 1 and substep 2) and in FIG. 14 (substep 3).
[0143] FIG. 12 illustrates a similarity comparison of a target soft
classification pattern ("what pattern") against soft classification
pattern of known reference contingencies.
[0144] FIG. 13 illustrates a similarity comparison of a target
location pattern ("where pattern") against location pattern of
known reference contingencies.
[0145] Further, FIG. 14 illustrates a final similarity of input
contingency data to known contingencies by combining the
similarities from the soft classification pattern with the
similarities of the location pattern. In the illustrated specific
example, the recognized contingency of the power supply network is
BC THK having a similarity score of 0.85.
[0146] In the method and system according to the present invention,
for each newly detected contingency the measurement data MD can be
recorded and a corresponding contingency profile can be computed
using a state estimator model and a steady state. This profile can
be compared to all profiles in a reference database using for
instance a cosine similarity-based similarity metric SM as
described above. The returned similarity can be used to rank the
candidate contingencies with respect to their similarity to the
input contingency profile. The similarity values indicate how
similar an observed contingency is to the corresponding contingency
stored in the reference database 5.
[0147] An aspect of the present invention lies in improving the
network state representation ("what pattern") and making it more
robust to variations in the input data. This can be accomplished by
two features of the present invention. The generation of
interpretable local pattern (e.g. distribution of contingency
classes) that describes the local belief of an in-field measurement
device 3 what contingency has happened and the neural attention
mechanism.
[0148] FIGS. 15-19 illustrate an attention mechanism of the neural
attention model LNSM as shown in FIG. 8. The attention mechanism
(model attention MATT) is demonstrated with actual data simulated
for an electrical grid 2 that mimics a real electrical grid. For
better visualization, only a raw active power AP signal is
illustrated. The model is actually applied on an artificially
noised variant of this signal. The five images of FIGS. 15-19 show
the behavior of the attention mechanism for five different
scenarios where it is assumed that the anomaly detection algorithm
may fail to determine the correct start of the anomaly (indicated
by a dot) except for the third case as shown in FIG. 17. The first
part of the curve is the part of the signal the neural attention
model is fed with. For example, in the first image of FIG. 15, it
is assumed that the anomaly detection determines the start of the
anomaly or contingency six time steps too early. In the last image
(FIG. 19), the anomaly detection determines the anomaly six time
steps too late. It can be seen that the attention of the model
(shown by bars) is highly dynamic indicating that the model is
aware of the varying information content of the fed data. This can
be seen in the first two images (FIG. 15, 16) where the data that
does not belong to the actual contingency is given a low attention
since it does not contain any information that does characterize
the subsequent contingency. Due to this dynamic awareness, the
model has a much higher tolerance to variations in the input data
leading to a superior robustness compared to conventional
methods.
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